Vetted Graduate Assistants

“Fintech-focused mobile engineer who built and shipped a mobile wallet to both iOS and Android app stores, implementing biometric login and AI-driven KYC (face + ID verification). Demonstrates strong customer feedback loops and production problem-solving, including resolving iOS version-specific third-party AI integration issues and improving payment UX by moving from synchronous to asynchronous processing.”

“Software engineer with experience across edtech, live gaming, and an AI document intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end customer-facing features and production backends. Built secure, automated live-session scheduling integrating Zoom and TalentLMS (JWT/RBAC, idempotency, transactions) cutting setup time from ~3 minutes to under 1 minute, and optimized real-time gaming dashboards/APIs with query tuning, caching, and CDN improvements (~60% latency reduction under peak load) on AWS.”

MANOGNA VADLAMUDI

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation, prompt engineering, and AI orchestration

Chicago, IL1y exp

“LLM workflow builder who has deployed a personalized GPT experience (including Delphi AI-based knowledge ingestion) and built a LangChain/LangGraph job-aggregation pipeline that ingests, normalizes/dedupes, filters, then uses an LLM to rank and summarize matches. Emphasizes production reliability with structured outputs, retries/fallbacks, metric-driven evaluation, logging/prompt versioning, and A/B testing, and collaborates with non-technical stakeholders through demo-driven iteration.”

“Master’s capstone at Stevens: conceptualized and helped build a cross-platform assistive mobile app for visually impaired users with currency detection (ML), voice-driven AI chatbot (OpenRouter), and a guided navigation video-call feature using a shared room code. Personally implemented Firebase login/sign-in, facial-recognition login, video calling, chatbot integration, and led integration/testing across the full app.”

“Co-op engineer who owned and shipped a Python/Flask backend for automating architecture reviews and system metadata processing, including ingestion from multiple internal APIs, RBAC, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on Kubernetes + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, built Kafka-based real-time ingestion, and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with phased cutover, smoke tests, and performance tuning.”

Swapnil Sanjay Pawar

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in GenAI and web platforms

Atlanta, GA2y exp

“AI/software engineer with hands-on experience deploying an LLM-powered quiz generation platform for students, integrating Python services with Gemini APIs plus frontend and database components. Emphasizes production-grade reliability through observability, schema validation, async processing, and performance tuning under high concurrency, and has collaborated with product/operators (e.g., at Colombo AI) to translate real-world constraints into scalable technical solutions.”

Alison Eberhardt

Screened

Mid-level preservation architectural professional specializing in historic buildings

New Jersey, USA6y exp

“Architectural professional with hands-on experience taking historic preservation projects from schematic design through CDs and construction administration. Stands out for combining code research, consultant coordination, and highly detailed technical problem solving on sensitive historic conditions, while also producing well-received research-driven graphics and visual documentation.”

“DevOps and automation-focused engineer with hands-on experience building CI/CD systems, Python-based QA environment provisioning, and scalable infrastructure tooling for internal teams and customers. Notably converted a one-off customer cloud log-backup request into a productized plugin adopted by 35% of customers in 3 months, and helped win a customer by integrating a difficult legacy log source into a SIEM platform.”

“Full-stack developer who owned and shipped an end-to-end web application for LeafNBeyond (React/Node/Postgres), deployed to production at leafnbeyond.com, with reported 35% sales growth and strong UX feedback. Also built Azure-based ETL pipelines using lakehouse/medallion architecture with validation and retry logic, and has AWS fundamentals from a master’s coursework (EC2, RDS, IAM, load balancing).”

Gowtham Manikanta Chilukabathula

Screened

Entry-level AI and Data Analyst specializing in LLMs and analytics

Memphis, TN1y exp

“Candidate brings a blend of AI, analytics, and go-to-market support experience through an AI/data internship and graduate assistant role. They analyzed data across 50+ organizations to identify high-fit outreach segments, improving targeting efficiency by about 28%, and also built/reviewed GPT-4 and LangChain-based outbound messaging systems with strong quality controls.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with experience turning messy operational and educational program data into validated reporting assets, dashboards, and AI-ready datasets. They stand out for pairing SQL/Python data preparation with rigorous validation and lightweight NLP on open-ended feedback, driving reported improvements in reporting efficiency, engagement, and student success outcomes.”

Mohammad Khaja Faizan

Screened

Junior Backend Software Engineer specializing in API-driven systems

Corpus Christi, TX2y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI who has designed and evolved an API-driven platform with an emphasis on clean contracts, data integrity, and scalable service boundaries. Demonstrated production-minded reliability work by addressing partial writes/retry failure modes with idempotency and validation, eliminating duplicate/corrupted records, and has implemented layered security including Supabase-managed auth, RBAC, and row-level security.”